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Relax, Relax…..Relax!
Why is it that Melo the cat, can just relax - anywhere? Why is it whenever I try to relax, I firstly need to find a quiet space? Then I need something comfortable to sit on, and I need the temperature to be right. Too cold and I’ll have to get up and get [...]
The Joy of Singing - ShACappella
“Alas for those who never sing and die with all their music in them.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
What a joy it is to sing!
It doesn’t matter if you think you’re a great singer or if you think you can’t sing. To sing is joyous. As Karen Ashworth, the founder of ShACappella says ”Sing when you are down [...]
Metaqua - A new fitness workout
My first endeavour to find something that the woman in middlescence may be interested in came to me, rather than my finding it. It’s a fitness program with a difference. It was introduced to me by a co-worker.
A Southern Highlands local, Sally Beresford came up with the idea when about to turn 40, she found [...]
Challenges
Yesterday I saw someone who brought up many memories and various thoughts. We’d been good friends many years ago, when my daughter and I first moved to the area.
He’s an intelligent man, with a good career, financially stable and owns a beautiful little farm with a very comfortable log cabin style home. He has been [...]
Ambition to Meaning: Finding your life’s purpose
Recently I posted the trailer for Ambition to Meaning: http://whttp://hotmiddlescence.com/2008/12/09/what-was-great-in-the-morning-will-be-little-at-evening/
I found the trailer and some of Dr Dyer’s quotes compelling enough to find myself looking forward to seeing the film.
Yesterday, my oportunity came via www.spiritualmediablog.com Matt Welsh had left a post with footage of of an interview with Dr Wayne Dyer on Ellen Degeneres. During [...]
Today I’m 53
Today is my birthday. I”m 53. Did you read read that Brigit, you are 53! It all seems ridiculous. How could I already be 53. I don’t feel it, well most of the time I don’t feel it. Yesterday while I was mowing my 1/3 of an acre of backyard with a push mower I [...]
How to de-stress at Christmas
“Yeah - right!” “De-stress at christmas,” but it can be done. It does however mean that you have to be aware of what your stressors are, and how you relate to them. They of course vary for each of us.
My mum is probably my biggest stressor. For some reason the dynamics between myself and her [...]
Mothers, teenagers and drugs
The comments to my last post revealed concern around teenage drug taking rather than what the post was actually meant to express. The thought process involved in that post was more to do with our anxiety, fear and stress as mothers, who have done all in our power to help our childen avoid risk taking [...]
Calm
Recently I came across an article identifying, stress, high blood pressure, high colestrol, diabetes2 and some medications such as benzodiazepines and beta blockers, as contributing factors in Alzheimer’s or other memory related problems.
Research suggests that as we age the brain finds it more difficult to filter out distractions. The brain also broadens its focus, making the instant retreval of names for instance [...]
